Device for setting tires on wagon or other wheels



(No Model.)

N. B. & A. T. MQOREARY.

DEVICE FOR SETTING TIRES ON WAGON OR OTHER WHEELS.

No. 398,843. Patented Mar. 5, 1889.

- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

NA'IHAN ll. NCCREARY, OI" ROCKPORT, AND ALFRED 'l. MQCREARY, OF ST.JOSEPH, MISSOURI.

DEVICE FOR SETTING TIRES ON WAGON OR OTHER WHEELS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 398,843, dated March 5,1889.

Application filed April 30, 1888. Serial No. 272,511. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: moving can be packed in the vessels or else-Be it known that we, NATHAN B. MC- where, as may be convenient, and usedas oe- CREARY and ALFRED T. MCCREARY, citizens casion may require. Thevessels A andB are of the United States, residing, respectively, Iconstructed precisely alike in shape; but ves- 5 at Rockport, in thecounty of Atchison, in the sol A is about three-fourths the size ofvessel State of Missouri, and at St. Joseph, in the i B, in order toallowof its being placed within county of Buchanan, in the State ofMissouri, vessel B. When so placed, supported by C C, have invented anew and useful Improvement vessel A maybe filled with linseed-01101other ln Devices for Setting Tires on agon and liquid and thevaeuityoutside of vesselA and to other \Vheels and Treating the heelswith inside of vessel B ifilled with water. Vessel Oil; and we do herebydeclare that the follow- B being elevated upon supports D D and a ing isa full, clear, and exact description of tire kindled under vessel B, thewater in vesthe construction and operation of the same, sel B may bespeedily heated. As the water reference being had to the annexeddrawings, thus heated covers the entire outer surface of 1'5 and totheletters of reference marked thereon, vessel A, the oil in vessel A isquickly melted I forming a part of this specification. and heated. \Vhenthe oil is in proper c011- The object of our invention is to provide adition, the wheel upon which it is desired to simple and eifectualmethod for more securely firmly set the tire or treat with oil may beresetting wagon and other tires and rendering volved by hand, so thatthe telly and tire will 20 wheels more durable. be immersed in the oiland the felly thor- Our invention consists of two vessels which oughlysaturated with the oil; 01 the hub may may be constructed of sheetmetalsuch as be suspended upon a pin placed ata sufficient tin orgalvanized iron orot' any cast metal-- distance above vessel A to allowthe felly to such as east-iron. The vessels are made seainrevolvethrough the oil. Vessel B being V- 7 5 2 5 less,and of sufficientlength,width, and height shaped, the flame underneath readily adjusts toallow the fellies of a wheel to be immersed l itself to and may easilybe made to cover the in oil put in the vessels. The vessels may beentire surface, thus quickly and equally heateonstructed somewhat in theform of boats, ing the water in all parts of the vessel. and should bemade seamless. 'lhey maybe 1 In the use of this device the oil cannot beo constructed with either circular or fiat botburned and the wood of thewheel cannot be toms, or in any form that will hold the oil and charred,and vessels A and Bbeing constructed permit segmenisofthef ell yiorevolve through out of oblong sheets of metal simply folded the oil orliquid. through the middle, with ends folded upwardSimilarlettersrefertosimilnrpartsthroughat right angles, no crevice orcrack is left for 5 5 out the several views. the leakage of either thewater or oil. Bythis Figure 1 in the drawings representsourdeconstruction the danger is obviated of meltvice as it appears inoperation with a wheel ing or breaking a vessel if constructed withbeing treated with oil or other liquid. Fig. 2 seams of any kind, which\vould,if broken by is a vertical longitudinal section of our deheat orotherwise, allowthc oiltoooze through 0 4o vice. Figs. 3 and 4-represent the rests or sup- 1 and be set on fire, or in which the oil orwaports used in combination with our device. ter, if boiled down belowthe point of contact Fig. 5 is a modification of our device. withlieat,\\'ould injure the seamsof saidves- A and B represent the twovessels of our sol. apparatus or device V-shapedin crossseetion.VessclsA and 13, without changing the prin: 45 Vessel A is supported bytwo V-shaped iron Q eiple, maybe ctmstructed with flat bottom andsupports, C, with turned or hooked ends fluted sides, the bottom beingcurved to the catching on the upper edges of the sides of contour of awheel, with supports 0 C and D vessel .15. .B is supported by two rests,l) D, 1) simply varied in form sulficient to support made of iron in theform of a Roman capital the vessels; or, in place of supports D D, legsI00 50 letter M. These rests (J U and DD are made may be permanentlyattached to each end of separate from the vessels, and in shipping orvessel B.

The heat for Warming the Water in vessel B .V shape in cross-section, ofa vessel, as A, may be obtained with abrush or wood fire made withinsaid, other vessel, of substantially the on the ground under the same;or a trench same shapebutsmallerthanthesame,movable 20 may be dug, afire kindled in the trench, and supports, as 0, located within thevessel B,

5 the apparatus or device lowered to a level their ends resting on theedges of the same with the ground and top of trench; or any and theircenters formed to conform to the other method or fuel for heating maybeadoptshape of the under side of the vessel A, Whereed that will suit theconvenience of the perby the inner vessel is held in position in the 25son using the same. center of the outer vessel, and legs support- 10 Ifany prefer, vessel A and water in vessel ing' the outer vessel,substantially as de- B may be dispensed with and the oil placed scribed.

intggssel B and heated in it directly from the N B MOCREARY Whatwe claimas our invention, and desire T ALFRED MQCREARY I 5 to secure by LettersPatent, is- Witnesses:

In a tire-setting device, the combination, J. M. OSBORNE,

with the outer vessel, B, formed substantially Y J. C. HUGHS.

